The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 37
But, luckily for her, her clothes caught on a nail in the wall, and kept her hanging between heaven and earth.
Who acts: woman · What happens: catch, keep, hang · To what, where: woman, nail, heaven
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 her | punct |
| 3 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 5 her | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clothes | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 her | conj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 nail | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nail | det |
| 12 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kept | cc |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | obj |
| 20 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 kept | xcomp |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 heaven | case |
| 22 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hanging | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 earth | cc |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heaven | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle · passive | woman | a nail | in the wall | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | past | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | woman not said here | heaven and earth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between heaven=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/18/37/